Fishing-spoon



(Mode1.)

. J. WOOD.

FISHING SPOON.

No. 395,103. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

- which the hooks are concealed.

UNTTE STATES PATENT JAMES \VOOD, OF ROCHESTER, NE\V YORK.

FlSHlNG-SPQON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,103, dated December 25, 1888.

Application med June 4, 1888. $erial No. 276,045. tModel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES \VOOD, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement for Trolling, \Vhipping, and Fishing, called a Spinner, of which the tollowing is a s iiecification.

l-Ieretofore fishing, especially trolling and whipping, has been done with great inconvenience and trouble and with poor results, by reason of the fact that the hooks used, always more or less exposed, were continually catching in the we ls, and at times, by reason thereo't, causing'a complete cessation of the sport.

My improvement relates to fish-bait called spinners, in which the hooks are concealed, to be used in fishing, trolling, and whipping in any manner and in any and all waters, especially in waters in which weeds are abundant.

The objects ot' my invention are, first, to provide a spinner with cmicealed hooks to be used in fishing, trolling, and whipping, partieularly among weeds, and of such a construction that the said spinner will be absolutel y and entirely tree tron'i catching weeds or being caught by weeds; second, that the said concealed books will become exposed and come into use only when the spinner is caught and closed by tish. I attain these objects by the mechanism as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents the spinner, showing the different parts of the improvement when the hooks are concealed. Fig. 2 represents the spinner, showing the ditlierent parts of the improvement when the spinner is closed and. the hooks are exposed. Fig. 3 gives a side view of the spinner, shmving the slot throughwhich the hooks are forced and come into use. Fig. at shows a Hat spinner, giving a view of the position of the improvement in Fig. 5 shows the same spinner as shown in Fig. 4:, showing the position of the improvement when. the hooks are exposed.

A long narrow piece of brass or other suitable material of the required length and breadth and of sufficient thickness to give the amount of spring necessary to keep the hooks concealed is bent into the shape of a letter V, as shown in 1. On either side of the inner portion of the brass or other material used is firmly fastened a hook or hooks, as shown. in Fig. 1. At- Z) Z) are slots in the sides of the spinner, through which the hooks pass and become exposed when the spinner is closed. The ends (1 c oi the spinner are turned, as shown in Fig. 1. hen the spinner is caught and the sides are brought together, the hooks become exposed,

as shown in Fig. 2, and when the pressure is removed the spinner resumes its former position and the hooks again become concealed,

as shown in Fig. 1. I

Fig. 4 represents the improvement applied to a flat spinner, in which two flat wings, with the larger ends slightly turned in opposite directions, are used, with hooks fastened to the inside edge ot' each wing, as shown in Fig. 4. When the wings are caught and closed, the hooks slide by the outer edges of the wings and become exposed, as shown in Fig. Upon the pressure being removed the wings resume their original position and the hooks again become concealed, as shown in Fig. r.

.llaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters latei 1 t, i s

1. The combination, with the wings of a compressible spini'ier, ot a hook securely ate tached to one wing and adapted to project: beyond the opposite wing when the spinner is compressed, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

The cmnbination, with the sI'n'ing-actuatcd wings of a eoin niessiblc spinner, of hooks attached to each wing and adapted to project beyond the opposite wing when the spinner is compressed, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, with the slotted spring- 9 5 actuated wings of a compressible spinner, ot' hooks attached to each wing and adapted to project through the slots beyond the opposite Wing", substantially as and for the purposes posite wing through the slots when the spinset forth. 1161' is compressed, substantially as and for 4. The combination, with the Wings 0 c of the purposes set forth.

a compressible spinner formedof a single JAMES \VOOD.

piece of spring metal and proviclecl with the 1 Witnesses: slots 1) b, of hooks firmly attached to each DANIEL \V. JOHNSON,

wing and. adapted to projectbeyond the 0p- 1 \V. FRANK CHANDLER, 

